This website project explores — primarily by means of visual representation — the relationships between on the one hand environmental activism and nature preservation; and on the other corporate resource exploitation and government politics, providing on these a perspective of environmental history.

www.CathedralGrove.eu is an appeal to help protect the last refuges of primaeval forests on the Northwest Coast of North America, those rare and vanishing places of intact biodiversity that have hitherto escaped the tsunami of population expansion and resource extraction triggered by European colonialism.

The project www.CathedralGrove.eu is motivated by a concern over the degradation of wild nature by the international wood products industry and documents the rapacious clearing of forests and its devastating impact on indigenous identity and culture, highlighted here in the case of totem pole carving and Northwest Coast art.

The big trees of Cathedral Grove in British Columbia, Canada are given the spotlight in these representations of endangered ancient forest ecosystems. The Grove became an international flashpoint in 2001 and again in 2004 when its biological integrity was threatened by the government-planned construction of a parking lot.